We Surveyed ~500 People Doing Platform Engineering. Here’s What We Learned.
04/03/24 • 40 min
The 2024 State of DevOps Report: The Evolution of Platform Engineering is live! In this episode, we’re taking you behind the scenes with the authors of the report and one of the people who helped run the survey.
Download the 2024 report for free here!
On this episode, join us as host Ben Ford, report authors Margaret Lee and David Sandilands, and project manager Stephanie Fairchild pull back the curtain on the 2024 State of DevOps Report.
What are the characteristics of successful platforms? Why is the new practice driving a surge in security? Where is platform engineering going next? Learn more in this episode!
Highlights:
- Why the State of DevOps Report pivoted to cover platform engineering last year
- What we wanted to find out this year
- The big takeaways from the 2024 report
- Our predictions for the next year of platform engineering
Speakers:
- Ben Ford, Community Lead at Puppet by Perforce
- Margaret Lee, Manager of Product Management at Puppet by Perforce
- David Sandilands, Principal Solutions Architect at Puppet by Perforce
- Stephanie Fairchild, Senior Manager at ClearPath Strategies
Links:
- Download the 2024 State of DevOps Report: The Evolution of Platform Engineering
- Email Margaret at [email protected]
- Find Ben on Mastodon, Twitter, and in the Puppet Community Slack as binford2k
- Find David on Mastodon and Twitter
Check out another episode with Ben, Margaret, and David about how return-to-office plans are shaping platform strategies
Find Us Online:
The 2024 State of DevOps Report: The Evolution of Platform Engineering is live! In this episode, we’re taking you behind the scenes with the authors of the report and one of the people who helped run the survey.
Download the 2024 report for free here!
On this episode, join us as host Ben Ford, report authors Margaret Lee and David Sandilands, and project manager Stephanie Fairchild pull back the curtain on the 2024 State of DevOps Report.
What are the characteristics of successful platforms? Why is the new practice driving a surge in security? Where is platform engineering going next? Learn more in this episode!
Highlights:
- Why the State of DevOps Report pivoted to cover platform engineering last year
- What we wanted to find out this year
- The big takeaways from the 2024 report
- Our predictions for the next year of platform engineering
Speakers:
- Ben Ford, Community Lead at Puppet by Perforce
- Margaret Lee, Manager of Product Management at Puppet by Perforce
- David Sandilands, Principal Solutions Architect at Puppet by Perforce
- Stephanie Fairchild, Senior Manager at ClearPath Strategies
Links:
- Download the 2024 State of DevOps Report: The Evolution of Platform Engineering
- Email Margaret at [email protected]
- Find Ben on Mastodon, Twitter, and in the Puppet Community Slack as binford2k
- Find David on Mastodon and Twitter
Check out another episode with Ben, Margaret, and David about how return-to-office plans are shaping platform strategies
Find Us Online:
Previous Episode
Your Return-to-Office Plans Will Shape Your Platform. Here’s How.
Platform engineering is all about giving devs the tools they need to work independently. Work-from-home policies give people flexibility in where and how they work. It should be a match made in heaven, right? Well... it’s more complicated than that.
Research, feedback, and evangelizing are critical to building an internal developer platform (IDP). But WFH can make that communication tough. And that's before you’ve even considered compliance and security (ugh, the 2FA). A human-focused IT strategy was crucial in supporting a shift to remote work during the pandemic, and it's going to be equally as important as we shift to a platform paradigm.
In this roundtable discussion, Ben leads a roundtable discussion of how return-to-office plans can impact platform engineering, joined by Margaret Lee and David Sandilands, authors of Puppet's 2024 State of DevOps Report: Platform Engineering Edition.
Speakers:
- Ben Ford, Community Lead at Puppet by Perforce
- Margaret Lee, Manager of Product Management at Puppet by Perforce
- David Sandilands, Senior Solutions Architect at Puppet by Perforce
Highlights:
- The remote/in-office flexibility your platform needs to consider
- Hardening measures essential to a secure IDP in the hybrid era
- What we learned about accommodating a workforce during the pandemic
- Evangelizing a platform without the in-person connection
Links:
- Email Margaret at [email protected]
- Find Ben on Mastodon, Twitter, and in the Puppet Community Slack as binford2k
- David Sandilands on Twitter
- Get the 2023 Platform Engineering Report and sign up to receive 2024’s when it releases
- Read the episode transcript
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Next Episode
The Future of the Forge: Unpacking the Big (and Small) Changes
It’s all good news, we promise! The Forge has always been the go-to spot for Puppet users to find, download, and update content and modules. On this episode, we're revealing a few of the exciting changes that are going to make the Forge even easier and more valuable for all Puppet users, like personalization, filters, and features to track module versions and updates against your Puppet file.
As of today, there are 7,508 modules on the Puppet Forge – some active, some deprecated, some created and supported by Puppet Labs, some by community groups like Vox Pupuli. While it’s become a hub for all Puppet users, we've heard feedback on ways it could be even better. We see a brighter future for the Forge – one built for and shaped by users like you! Join Ben Ford as he talks to Forge Product Manager Saurabh Karwa about what the Forge is today, the subtle changes that are already in the works, the near-term roadmap, and the long-term vision for the Forge.
Speakers:
- Ben Ford, Community Lead at Puppet by Perforce
- Saurabh Karwa, Product Manager at Puppet by Perforce
Highlights:
- Introducing Saurabh, the Product Manager for the Puppet Forge
- What the Forge is today and what it needs to become THE place for Puppet users
- The role of the Puppet Community in shaping the future of the Forge
- Adding personalization, new filters, and features to track module versions and updates
- Why you should join our new Ecosystem Advisory Board
Links:
- Join the Puppet Community Slack
- Tell us what you think of the Forge and PDK with the Ecosystem Advisory Board survey
- Email Saurabh at [email protected]
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